The importance of democracy was further underlined by the revelation, at the 20th Congress of the Soviet CommunistParty in 1956, of many crimes and injustices committed during the Stalin era.

Party Rule 15(b) states that members have the duty "to read the Morning Star and to help in every way the circulation of the paper." This is our number one priority, as increased circulation is crucial in the battle of ideas and in organising resistance to attacks on living standards, jobs and democratic rights.

The CommunistParty is the organisational and political lever which assists the more politically conscious part of the working class to direct the struggle of the mass of working class and all oppressed strata on the right path.

Communists fight to win all forces involved in the struggle against apartheid to the understanding that unless this vital connection is understood and the work accordingly directed towards the most oppressed sections of the British working class, an effective mass solidarity movement cannot be built.

Communists oppose all forms of social, political and material discrimination in all spheres of social life against homosexuals, those classified as 'mentally ill', the elderly, the disabled and all other sections, at all times exposing the fact that the source of all such discrimination is the racist imperialist system itself.

The Turn in the Communist International and the Situation in Germany - 1930 essay by Trotsky on "Third Period" Stalinist ultraleftism by the German CommunistParty and its inability to combat the threat of Nazism.

International Communist League - Publishers of Workers' Vanguard and The Spartacist, the ICL is organised as the Spartacist League in several countries and the Trotskyist League/Lige Trotskyiste in Canada and France.

CommunistParty of Great Britain - A rump of the old CPGB and smaller than the other groups that split from the original party in the 1970s and 80s.

Following the collapse of the communist government in the Soviet Union, the 6,300 members of the CommunistParty of Great Britain in 1991 renamed themselves the Democratic Left.

CommunistParty; it was a desperate attempt to retrieve a weakening position.

The party which is represented on these benches, from which, at the present moment, I am an outcast, has set itself a task of an entirely different character, that of travelling along the road of peace and progress and of spending all that can be spent in making life higher and better for all.

The aim of the CommunistParty of Britain is to put an end to the xenophobic, racist policies that promote the continued abuse of migrants in the pursuit of capitalistic gain by creating a socialist Britain run by the people, for the people.

The CommunistParty of Britain is dedicated to the development of an immigration system that will provide all workers, migrants and citizens alike, with the highest level of mobility throughout Britain in search of fair and equal opportunity to work.

The CommunistParty of Britain is intent on providing all workers the ability to contribute to the economic prosperity of the state through the implementation of socialism.

He allegedly resigned from the Communistparty, so he says, in 1935, so that he would be in a much better position to attend to certain branches of the work in which he proposed to interest himself.

Communists, he knew, had to argue like Jesuits, but the values and methods of a liberal education would become another complication in the role he found himself playing in the tiny Australian Communistparty.

Similarly, although he despised the Stalinist Communistparties for their refusal to condemn the treason trials in the Soviet Union, he defended the Bolshevik revolution, and the role of the Soviet Union in the struggle against fascism.

The party was founded in 1920 after the Third International decided that greater attempts should be made to establish communistparties across the world.

The CPGB was formed by the merger of several smaller Marxist parties: the British Socialist Party, the Communist Unity Group of the Socialist LabourParty and the South Wales Socialist Society.

The CPGB reached its peak in 1943 and in the 1945 general election, the communistparty received 103,000 votes, and two Communists were elected as members of parliament one of whom was the aforementioned Gallacher, the other one was Phil Piratin who won Mile End in London's East End.

CPB members of the are expected to abide by one of the party's rules that Party members must read and do all they can to increase the circulation of the newspaper.

The Communist University of Britain has become an annual three-day event from 2005, joined by weekend universities in Scotland and Wales in 2006 and with plans for a Communist University of the Midlands - to be organised jointly with the Association of Indian Communists (Marxist) - in 2007.

Among the speakers at the Communist University of Britain at Ruskin House in November 2006 were John McDonnell MP, RMT general secretary Bob Crow, CND chair Kate Hudson, CommunistParty USA vice-president Jarvis Tyner, French CommunistParty economist Paul Boccara and PLO ambassador Dr Noha Khalef.

One of the most prominent purveyors of this 'Rule Britannia' brand of Communist history, Nina Fishman, is taken to task with terse but convincing restraint: ' she underestimates the continued influence of the foreign policy concerns of the Soviet state, the Comintern and the British party leadership on the political culture of Communist activists' (pxiv).

Never a mass party, unlike the European comrades, the CPGB in 1920-21 welded together a disparate collection of organisations that were either pessimistically sectarian or triumphalistically over-optimistic, to forge a party that was to be predominant over the left beyond the LabourParty for nearly 70 years.

The problem for the CommunistParty was that in arguing for diminished expectations, it was attempting to occupy a political space which was already successfully inhabited by the LabourParty.

www.dkrenton.co.uk /books/cpgb.html (7752 words)

CPGB: History of the Communist Party of Great Britain(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)

The CommunistParty was the decisive force in the General Strike of 1926, when it held the leadership positions in the most militant unions and had more than 10,000 members.

However, the defeat of the General Strike, for which the CommunistParty carried a major responsibility, and the subsequent reaction, reduced the Party’s vote to 75,000 in the 1931 General Election and membership of the party fell to 6,000.

Following the collapse of the communist government in the Soviet Union in 1991, the remaining 6,300 members of the CommunistParty of Great Britain renamed themselves the Democratic Left, while those who rejected the abandonment of the “communist” label left to form the CommunistParty of Britain.

Talking about the characterisation of the LabourParty by the SLP and the SP, I made the point that: "Both parties say that there is no longer any difference between Labour and the Tories.

We welcome a Labour government as a first step." Later, referring to a struggle within the LabourParty, I said: "The problem with the SLP and SP is that they have abandoned the struggle before it has been fought.

Nevertheless, it is disappointing that our party’s non-sectarian approach in seeking wider contacts should be used as a stick by Martin Sullivan to beat us bad old sectarians who recognise that the CPB should talk, and where possible act, with other members of the left.

CommunistParty USA vice-president Jarvis Tyner said that the George W Bush government was 'not just your usual US right-wing administration.' He quoted late US communist leader Gus Hall's observation that 'fascism always lurks in the bowels of capitalism.' full story...

The statement, which refers to the danger of a “growing anti-communism across Europe”, was also signed by the Communist Pary of Britain and calls on all democratic organisations in Britain to voice their opposition to the moves made by the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Britain'scommunists are proposing a left wing programme for consideration by the labour and progressive movements.

www.communist-party.org.uk (513 words)

Young Communist League(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)

The forum was chaired by Gawain Little, former Young Communist leader and member of the CND National Council and the CommunistParty’s Executive Committee.

Echoing his comments, John Foster, International Secretary of the CPB pointed out that “the CommunistParty of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) is a legitimate political party which polled 18.5% in the most recent elections.

This is our duty as political parties, leftist and democratic patriotic forces, personalities, and fighters who once played an honorable part in defending the homeland against aggression, who in the Lebanese National Resistance Front in 1982 and afterwards performed acts of heroism that our people remember with pride and glory.

The ``new'' Britain may be unabashedly devoid of ideology, but the traditional Left - old-fashioned, almost past its ``use-by'' date - has not given up completely and occasionally it can even overcome its fatally self-destructive differences in order to be heard above the din of ``mainstream'' politics.

There are nearly a dozen Left groups in Britain and many of them have come together on a common platform of ``Socialist Alliance'' to fight next month's general election, as an alternative to Labour and the Tories - the British version of a ``third force''.

The CommunistParty of Britain and the Socialist Party of Great Britain have put up their own stalls - all of which may give a strong ideological flavour to the election campaign but would only end up dividing the few Left votes that Britain still has.

Our stall with its eye-catching CommunistParty flags, continues to provide a point of contact for the many people who are discovering that neo-liberalism & capitalism offer no real solutions.

Our rules state that ‘this necessitates a revolutionary transformation of society, ending the existing capitalist system of exploitation and replacing it with a socialist society in which each will contribute according to ability and receive according to work done.

www.scottishcommunists.org.uk (626 words)

Communist Party of Britain flag(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)

The current flag of the CommunistParty of Britain (CPB) can be seen at http://www.communist-party.org.uk/index.php?file=flagad.

The reverse of the flag shows the symbols and the "CommunistParty" lettering reversed.

The CPB uses this hammer and sickle on much of their current literature together with their other symbol, the hammer and dove.

Well over 100 people attended a Memorial Meeting in Coventry on October 22 to honour the life and work of Kewal Singh Purewal, late president of Indian Workers Association (Great Britain), marking the first anniversary of his passing.

It is in contempt of its duty to do otherwise and refuse to recognise all the electorate as equal citizens on the grounds of religion, sex, national origin or any other grounds.